Tchaikovsky

This arrangement of one of Tchaikovsky's most loved waltzes displays all of Carlo Martelli's customary skill and inventive power. For conservatories and professionals.

This charming waltz, arranged here for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, is the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, and as with all this composers least pretentious music has a tenderness and pathos which give a guileless and unalloyed pleasure to the discerning listener.  

Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is one of Tchaikovsky's many famous waltzes in which the lyrical side of his genius is always to the fore.

Since this piece was composed originally for string orchestra the arranger Carlo Martelli has retained as far as possible the existing distribution of the parts. For conservatories and professionals.

Tchaikovsky's lyrical genius and his extraordinarily subtle gift for portraying character is at its peak in this, his most well known, opera. This waltz, which opens the second act, is one of Tchaikovsky's finest, brilliantly transcribed here for the four strings by Carlo Martelli.

Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is the most well known of all Tchaikovsky's many drawing-room pieces for piano, using a title invented and made popular by Mendelssohn more than forty years earlier.

In this version of Tchaikovsky's early romantic masterpiece the arranger Carlo Martelli has considerably curtailed the original in length.

Tchaikovsky's piano music is of the drawing-room order and always charmingly written - this Romance is typical, and is ideal for transference to the string quartet as is here arranged by Carlo Martelli.

This medley, arranged by Carlo Martelli from Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera, is a collage containing most of the Mozartian pastiche found in the piece and some of the more overtly 'Russian' numbers.

Arranged here for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this famous 5/4 movement from the Pathétique Symphony turned out to be its composers swan song.

This superlatively skilful adaptation by Carlo Martelli of Tchaikovsky's Christmas masterpiece omits only one movement, the Arab Dance, from the original suite.

Tchaikovsky wrote a great deal of music for solo piano, all of it of the salon variety. This charming example of this side of the great composer's art is here expertly transcribed for the string quartet by Carlo Martelli.

This skittish little piece, originally for piano and now arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, was lifted by Stravinsky for his ballet The Fairy's Kiss.

The quaintness and piquancy of this little dance from Tchaikovsky's great ballet score has been perfectly captured in this excellent arrangement by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.